to the splendid Lawrence Reynolds Historical Library in the Birmingham Medical Centre and the cordiality of its custodian, Mrs. Martha Lou Thomas. This volume traces the life of Osler through this refreshing and friendly correspondence. The first letter, when Osler was fifteen years of age, is dated 10 January 1865. It was written from Dundas to Milburn at Oakville because the Christmas vacatio...

The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy (MOEE) is the custodian of a digital database of the water wells log drilled in the province. The lithological, material properties and hydrogeologic information contained in this database is utilized extensively in geotechnical and hydrogeologic site investigations and for geologic and terrain studies. The utility of this database is however restr...

Bhutan’s current constitution draws upon the historical dual system of religious-civil governance under monarchy (previously Abbot-king) embodying Mahayana Buddhist concept Boddhisatva-leadership. democracy includes an executive-military and pluralist religious custodian role for King who can be abdicated by parliament. It Gross National Happiness as spiritual core, which is non-binding law, in...

Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC (Work Group Co-Chair), is Professor of Medicine, Division Head of Nephrology at the University of British Columbia, and Consultant Nephrologist at Providence Health Care/St Paul’s Hospital, in Vancouver Canada. Dr Levin is the Executive Director of the BC Renal Agency, which oversees the care, planning, and budgets for kidney services in the province of British Columbia....

An enhanced understanding of the temporal dynamics of intraspecific diversity is anticipated to improve the adequacy of conservation priorities, methods and metrics. We report on the comparative genetic composition of exand in-situ landrace cultivar populations from a potato diversity hotspot in the Andes. A total of 989 landrace cultivars belonging to contemporary custodian-farmer in situ coll...

Abstract. Kuswardono PT, Mudita IW, Pandie DBW. 2021. The landlords, the peasant, and retention basin: Local political ecology of water management in small island Semau, Kupang, Indonesia. Intl J Trop Drylands 5: 12-19. Freshwater is most fundamental issue islands because very catchment area low capacity. To ensure availability for domestic agriculture purposes, Government Indonesia (GoI) has b...

IntroductionDigital footprint records -- the tracks and traces amassed by individuals as a result of their interactions with internet, digital devices services can provide ecologically valid data on individual behaviours. These could enhance longitudinal population study databanks; but few UK studies are attempting this. When using novel sources data, managers must engage participants in order ...

people, which is often reinforced by legislation, such people are marginalised and endangered. It is our historical treatment of prostitutes that has made them vulnerable to violence and abuse. Criminalising prostitution denies people, in this case mainly women, choices and the right to control their own bodies. There has been debate as to whether prostitutes have choices; our duty is to increa...

Delay tolerant network (DTN) is a kind of computer network that suffer from the frequent disconnections, network partitioned and unstable network connectivity, therefore maintaining an uninterrupted route from source to destination is not possible. Therefore, the transmission of message is achieved via intermediate nodes by adopting a novel transmission mechanism called store-carry and forward ...

BACKGROUND The incidence of delayed emergency calls and the outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) may differ among public facilities when emergency calls are placed by institutional staff. The purpose of this study was to identify the actions prescribed in the rules and/or manuals of public facilities and to clarify whether the incidence of delayed emergency call placement and the ou...